Method of making collars.



H. WHITING.

METHOD OF MAKING COLLAR-S.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.17,1910.

1,066,967, Patented July 8, 1913.

- "HORATIO'WHITING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF MAKING COLLARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8, 1913.

Application filed January 17, 1910. Serial No. 538,426.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HonA'rro WRITING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Collars. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in collars of the turned-over type, and particularly to the method of making the same.

In the turned-over market, there has been great ditliculty in readily adjusting the necktie between the two folds of the collar when once buttoned to the shirt.

The object of this invention, therefore, is to provide a new and improved collar, which will allow sufficient space between the folds to permit the tie to slip readily between the folds without bindlng. This is done by a new and improved method of making the collar, which consists broadly in joining together two folds or members of the collar which have been previously treated to obtain the property, or are naturally endowed with the property of shrinking different amounts when subsequently treated with a wash.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure l is a plan view showing a collar in its unfolded position, with the separate parts thereof united together; Figs. 2 and 3 are. views similar to Fig. 1, showing the members separate; and Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section showing the spaced relation of the members when united together.

We now come to the more specific description of the features of this invention.

In the drawings, 1 indicates the inner fold of the collar, which may be termed the stand and which is united to an outer fold or leaf 2 in any suitable manner, as by stitching 3. These folds 1 and 2, which comprise the members of the collar, may be made of any number of layers and of any quality of cloth, with the exception that collars now on the they shall have different degrees of shrinkage. It is preferable that the inner fold or member 1 shall have a greater shrinkage than the outer fold or member 2. This may be obtained in various ways, as. for example, by shrinking the fold 2 to its fullest extent before making up the collar. and forming the fold 1 of unshrunken material. It may, however, be also obtained by partially shrinking the fold 2 and partially shrinking the fold 1, or partially shrinking the fold 2 and leaving the fold 1 entirely unshrimken, or in any other way, just so as the inner fold 1 will have the greatest power of shrinking when the collar is made up. .After the collar is made up in this manner, the whole collar is submitted to a wash of water, or any other process by which cloth is shrunk, so that when the shrinking action is finished, the inner fold 1 will have shrunk a greater degree than the outer fold 2, thereby forming,.when bent up. an arc of a circle of less radius than will be formed by the outer fold 2. The folds l and 2 will thereby be spaced apart from each other a considerable distance, which can be varied by the difference in the shrinkage of the material before making up the collar.

It will thus be seen that a collar will be formed in which the members thereof will be spaced relatively to each other, so that a necktie can slip loosely between them without hindrance; and this collar will be formed by a method which consists in first joining two members of different degrees of shrinkage and then submitting the members, after being joined, to a shrinking solution.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1-- 1. The method of making a collar composed of an inner and an outer fold, which consists in permanently joining together two folds capable of relatively different degrees of shrinking, then submitting the joined folds to a shrinking action.

2. The method of making a collar, which consists in joining to ether an inner fold or stand and an outer old or leaf, composing said collar, said inner fold being composed of New York and State of New York this of unshrunkenllnaerifixl, alrgd said outer 01% 14th day of Jan. A. D. 1910. bein compose b 5 run en material, an subszquently subjecting the united folds to HORATIO WRITING 5 a, shrinking action, whereby the inner jold Witnesses: .7

shrinks away from the outer tom. CLAIR W. FAIRBANK, Signed at New York city in the county PHILIP D. Ronmmns. 

